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The Panzers of Prokhorovka - The Myth of Hitler's Greatest Armoured Defeat (Hardcover)
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The Panzers of Prokhorovka - The Myth of Hitler's Greatest Armoured Defeat (Hardcover)
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This ground-breaking new study of the battles of Kursk and
Prokhorovka will transform our understanding of one of the most
famous battles of the Second World War, widely mythologized as the
largest tank battle in history. Today in Russia there are three
official sacred battlefields: Kulikovo, where the Mongols were
defeated in 1380; Borodino, where Russian troops slowed Napoleon's
Grande Armee before Moscow in 1812; the third is Prokhorovka. This
is widely described as the most critical tank battle of the Second
World War, which saw the annihilation of Hitler's elite Panzer
force in the largest armoured clash in history and left Hitler with
no alternative but to halt Germany's offensive against the Kursk
salient. Victory, on 12 July 1943, at Prokhorovka over Hitler's
vaunted SS troops has traditionally been described as a turning
point in the Second World War. The Panzers of Prokhorovka
challenges this narrative. The battle was indeed an important
Soviet victory, but a very different one to that described above.
Based on ground-breaking archival research and supported by
hitherto unpublished images of the battlefield, Ben Wheatley argues
that German armoured losses were in fact negligible and a fresh
approach is required to understand Prokhorovka. As we reach the
80th anniversary of the battles of Kursk and Prokhorovka in 2023,
The Panzers of Prokhorovka tackles the many myths that have built
up over the years, and presents a new analysis of this famous
engagement.
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